Are not these woods
More free from peril than the envious court?

Are not these woods
More free from peril than the envious court?

Happie is hee that chastens himselfe.

Happie is hee that chastens himselfe.

By doing nothing we learne to do ill.

By doing nothing we learne to do ill.

May everything he treads upon become a rose!

May everything he treads upon become a rose!

For man may pious texts repeat,
And yet religion have no inward seat.

For man may pious texts repeat,
And yet religion have no inward seat.

'Tis gone: a thousand such have slipt
Away from my embraces:
And fallen into the dusty crypt
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'Tis gone: a thousand such have slipt
Away from my embraces:
And fallen into the dusty crypt
Of darken'd forms and faces.

A handfull of good life is better then a bushell of learning.

A handfull of good life is better then a bushell of learning.

Humble Hearts have humble desires.

Humble Hearts have humble desires.

In the husband wisedome, in the wife gentlenesse.

In the husband wisedome, in the wife gentlenesse.